"Dig it yourself, this is not earth, but concrete, - remove it from the site, but bring a new one!" - How often, dear women, do we hear this from our strong male half? And once in my life that happy moment came when my men flatly refused to dig
The ROC is actively promoting the myth that the Russian people "from time immemorial" went to the Epiphany of the Lord to swim in the ice-hole. Few people think about where such an extreme tradition came from. Meanwhile, it has deep roots, going back to the times when Christianity in Russia did not even smell
Sevmash hosted the launching ceremony of a unique submarine of project 09852, which will act as a carrier of the Poseidon nuclear torpedo, RIA-Novosti reports
What makes people, often contrary to common sense, do one thing and not do another? What is the mechanism for introducing various trends into society through fashion? Who runs fashion and what are the goals of the consumer society, we will analyze in this article
The following advice comes from a former GRU officer hiding under the nickname Raccoon. Unfortunately, all contacts with him have been lost. The scenario is similar - civil war or war. So:
In the eighteenth century USA, the cultivation of cannabis was compulsory. From 1763 to 1769, for refusing to cultivate this crop, one could even end up in prison. Until the early 19th century, hemp was allowed to pay taxes in the United States
Author kfmin, ns, RAS. He taught at the institute. I will try to show the problems that are now relevant for me and my associates
On August 24-25, in the American town of Jackson Hole, a meeting of heads of central banks from different countries was held. Of course, a closed meeting. Journalists were not allowed on it. Doctor of Economics, Professor of MGIMO Valentin KATASONOV is known for exposing international bankers
We live in an amazing time when sudden changes on a global scale ruthlessly sweep away everything fleeting and superficial in human life, exposing it
Pandemic, coronavirus, global self-isolation of countries, economic crisis, everything that is happening now is described with amazing accuracy in the report of the Rockefeller Foundation published in May 2010. This report was titled: "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development"
So gentlemen. The information that you will read in this and the next two posts, of course, is not the ultimate truth, but only a topic for thought. The topic, however, explains a lot of inconsistencies and breaking logical chains in the trash that is happening in the world now
Motive. Without it, no action is possible. We are born with basic motivations based on our physical needs. But the further we get to know the world, absorbing all the features of the information environment around us, the more motivation we have. But often our choice is not always our choice
In a modern market society, where everything is bought and sold, people are just engaged in competing - which of them is more like a bird with a bushy tail. Moreover, all kinds of “show-off” act as “feathers” - branded clothes, accessories, fashionable appliances. The essence of the human peacock was captured by the writer Jack Kerouac back in the 1950s, at the dawn of the formation of a consumer society
Hong Kong is a city with a multi-million population and a huge contrast in people's living standards. The thing is that a lot of Chinese live here in very small closets, like our closets. This solution to the housing issue is due to two factors - urban overcrowding and terribly high prices for living space
I would very much like to get acquainted with the opinion of readers on the theses and arguments set out below. They are about a possible future, which, by the way, may come during the life of many of you: new-contemporary history has significantly accelerated its pace
At the end of October we will have another "cultural" event. Hundreds of young people in masks of zombies, dead people, witches, executioners and maniacs will fill the streets and clubs of our cities. They will drink tomato juice on this day, symbolizing blood, and in restaurants and bars they will be offered dishes in the form of coffins, severed fingers and other rubbish
Journalists retell the articles of scientists, presenting them as the ultimate truth. But this can no longer be done. The children of usurers turned science from a tool for understanding the world into a means of deceiving and enriching parasites
I think I was incredibly lucky. I still managed to get a Soviet technical education, which at the point of the change of eras I supplemented with a semi-Soviet-semi-perestroika - legal, and all this was polished from above with a purely bourgeois technical
Gravediggers in Brazil are digging up the dead to make way in cemeteries for the rapidly increasing victims of Covid-19, after the country has become the second most deadly country in the world
In a shocking revelation, movie star Mel Gibson screams at the top of his lungs about an epidemic of "parasites" that "control Hollywood" that are involved in child sacrifice and pedophilia. The Lethal Weapon Star stated that "every studio in Hollywood is bought and paid for with the blood of innocent children," adding that "the most precious currency is the blood of babies."
Coronavirus, even if it arose by accident, led to very interesting discoveries
This headline has been in my head for about a year now. But apparently, only now that boiling point has come, when I decided to write this article
I, Igor Nikolaevich Gusev, served in Riga secondary school No. 17 from 1986 to 1994. Taught history as well as social studies, psychology and logic
The main goal of information and psychological warfare is to break the enemy's ability to resist
The Basic Law has hopelessly lagged behind the political reality of Russia. The 1993 Constitution describes a society established in an "open field" by people who are confident that their state was born in 1991, and who do not remember anything about the history of Russia
The border with China is one of the longest for Russia, and the history of relations between the countries is more than 300 years old, so territorial disputes between states are quite natural. In 2008, the parties officially settled the last border issues, but nevertheless, the Celestial Empire still has minor claims to the demarcation line
We are living in a Cold War period like no other in history. This war has new technologies, new "branches of the armed forces", new strategies and tactics … Cyber troops conduct cyberattacks along the entire information front, using a powerful information tool - social networks. These attacks are carried out systematically, thoughtfully, according to verified targets. By the principle: in war, all means are good
Let's say you want to go somewhere for the New Years. For example, in Morocco. Or, perhaps, to the homeland of Father Frost in Veliky Ustyug. You go to the Internet and enter the corresponding request into the search. But since you don't know what you want, you very soon switch to social media. And now, less than five minutes later, an advertisement for sunny Morocco or snowy Veliky Ustyug begins to haunt you on Facebook, VK or Insta. And the next day, the same story on the phone and
Do I need to glue the camera on my laptop? Is your smartphone eavesdropping on you? How to protect yourself from personal data leakage? An employee of the cybersecurity department answers the pressing questions of our time and talks about the work
According to one study, children today spend 10 times more time on smartphone screens than in 2011
Reforms and innovations in education do not always have a positive effect on the knowledge of schoolchildren and students. In many regional schools there is a shortage of personnel. Probably, the number of professors in universities will also soon decrease. Our blogger Alexander Shevkin commented on an article in the group "For the revival of education" and explained why the latest innovations did not justify themselves
If you ever want to write the history of your family and your ancestors, you will have to face many difficulties that only genealogists understand. Genealogy is the discipline that studies genealogy. Perhaps most of all, the uninitiated person will be surprised by the fact that the most serious genealogists in the world are American Mormons. They have the most numerous database of dead people on the planet
Alexander Ivanovich Sulakadzev, a little-known name, but it is very closely related to the monuments of runic Slavic writing and ancient history. It is customary to rank Sulukadzev among the most famous domestic counterfeiters, but is this so?
The situation with the spread of coronavirus in the world continues to deteriorate, and in these conditions, governments and other state authorities are imposing restrictive measures for the population as a blueprint. At the same time, it is not decisive how many citizens have a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 - 1534
A new strain of coronavirus that has emerged in Britain has given rise to panic expectations: they say, the covid will become much more dangerous than before. Perhaps even that very "disease X" - a powerful pathogen that can lead to a pandemic with catastrophic consequences
Modern popular culture is very similar to an industry. Just as factories and factories produce cars, televisions, computers, media, social media, film studios and publishers churn out an infotainment product every day
When fantasy replaced science fiction, the future was replaced by the past, according to the historian and social philosopher Andrei Fursov. In an interview with BUSINESS Online, he told how Game of Thrones blurs the notions of good and evil among its viewers, why Christianity was removed from the fantasy Middle Ages, who was hindered by the scientific and technological progress of the 1960s, and why dreams of other planets and starships were exchanged to the world of debauchery and medieval torture
People in psychiatric ambulance suits came to the opening of the film festival of perverts
Have you heard of the shocking study published in a journal published by the Public Science Library, which says that up to 72% of scientists admit that their colleagues were somehow involved in "questionable research" and that 14% of them participated in explicit "Falsifications"?